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Mind Maps: Pull Out or Put In?

What is a mind map? A mind map is a means to capture thoughts or information and put them in order by association. It helps you to collect ideas, to create new ones, to remember them and, in essence, to think more effectively about a text, a project, an idea. In […]

How to study a text? 7 steps to deal with any written text

A study method, I have often talked about on the blog, is an articulated and complex system, which involves the most disparate skills, such as: Organization Motivation Habits Reading and understanding Memory Management of energy, time, anxiety .... In the end, […]

100 things to do in quarantine

Are you looking for inspiration on possible things to do in quarantine? Our tips will help you fight boredom and monotony. As concerts are postponed, sporting events are cancelled, venues are closed and education takes place remotely, experts are recommending […]

Pimsleur method: the steamroller for foreign languages

In a recent article on the method of delayed repetition I mentioned the Pimsleur method, a very popular foreign language learning system abroad (particularly in Anglo-Saxon countries) and almost unknown in spain. I received some emails asking me for more detailed […]

No one has ever taught me to….

Today on the blog de GetPersonalGrowth I host Issac Robledo, psychologist and author of several bestsellers in English and Spanish. Although we have been emailing Issac for years now (we are part of a private group of Amazon authors, and we talk about similar topics), […]

Marginal Earnings Theory: How to compete at the TOP

La marginal gains theory is a performance improvement strategy that can be summarized as follows: The sum of very small improvements in many areas can give an astonishing overall result This is a principle I mentioned in the article on mental models and which, […]

Cascading Patterns: How To Make Them Really WELL

How are waterfall schemes made? What are? Do I have to outline the whole book? Can you give me some examples? Is it better to make a waterfall scheme or a mind map? They ask me these questions so often that I got the idea that, before starting any school, it would […]

How to Be More Productive: 6 Tactics (+1 Fundamental)

To the Spaniards, of how to be more productive, basically, they don't give a damn. How do I know? Because a few days ago I did a google analysis on the frequency of the question "How to be more productive" and some of its main variants, such as "increase my productivity", […]

The Ivy Lee way to be more productive.

Il Ivy Lee method I'm talking about today is not only a really great system for increase productivity even the most distracted and listless, but it also has a really interesting history. In fact, it takes us back to about 100 years ago, in the atmosphere […]

Concept maps: the big misunderstanding

What are Concept Maps? According to Joseph Novak, who invented them, concept maps are tools capable of organizing and representing knowledge. These are two actions, organizing and representing, which greatly facilitate the analysis of information and the acquisition […]

Effective Study Method: 6 Rules for Developing It

Develop a effective study method it is not to be taken for granted, especially in a school system that one almost always forgets about teach to learn. And so, especially after high school, studying for many becomes really difficult. This was once […]

The 10+ best apps to study!

Under the name of "App for studying"Hundreds and hundreds of tools are now coming together that can, in theory, help a university or high school student in a thousand different ways. Exactly, in theory .. Because as always, when there is too much choice, you […]

How to Reach Your Goals

Why are we not good at achieving the goals we set ourselves? Probably precisely why we are too focused on them. Paradoxical right? To explain what I mean, let me tell you about the famous "darts experiment" conducted by Barry Zimmerman, professor of learning […]

SMART goals: how to achieve and maintain them over time

Sometimes we want something, but we still can't clearly understand what. Other times, however, the view is much clearer: we know what we want and we can't wait to reach it. The problem is to understand if, how and when we will succeed. If you find yourself in this […]

How to Study Quickly: The Mistake You Must Avoid.

If there is one thing that all students would like to discover, it is how to study fast! And so, they try and try a thousand tricks, techniques and strategies, which however rarely give them the desired results. Why? The main reason is that they do - without realizing […]

3 Core Skills (no matter what job you do)

To do our job well, to be effective, we all need to develop a series of specific skills, which over time become the tools of our trade. Everyone, with respect to their work, usually knows exactly what they are: they just have to learn how to do them well, which […]

Writing a Journal: How to Do It, Why It's So Effective

Write a diary it cures us from stress and negative emotions. It makes us make better decisions and be more effective. It helps us understand who we are, what we need, what we want. In short, writing a personal diary is a powerful, simple, free transformation strategy. This […]

Flow Status: 7 Requirements to Experience it in Every Activity

Flow is the very source of intrinsic motivation ”Jamie Wheal, Executive Director of the Flow Genome Project Have you ever been so immersed in an activity that you lose track of time, clear your mind of all distractions and be focused entirely on what you are […]

Advice for studying to a stuck engineering student

Anthony Hi Andrea here is a series of notes on the things you told me: Study 19 hours a day! Mind maps I think they waste your time. In fact, it is a very useful tool for the creative part, but precisely because they are somewhat unstructured […]

Cornell Method: What It Is, Why It Works, How It Works

Conceived almost 80 years ago by prof. Walter Pauk of Cornell University in New York, the Cornell method it is the most effective system I know of for taking notes. Despite its simplicity - at the end it is a sheet divided into 3 parts - the Cornell method allows […]

Parkinson's Law: Why We Waste Time and 5 Strategies for Quitting

What is Parkinson's Law? In 1958, Ciryl Northcote Parkinson, in a productivity book that instantly became an international bestseller, gave the following definition. The work expands to take up all available time The formulation of Parkinson's law is deliberately […]

Mental concentration in the study: how to find it if you have lost it

"Mental concentration? For me it's when you can keep playing tennis while someone is shooting in the street… I didn't grow up playing at the Country Club! " Serena Williams It is no coincidence that this article begins by quoting a sportswoman: I wrote it during […]

Cicero's Loci technique: how it works, how to use it to study

He wrote Cicerone in his notes talking about the most famous of memory techniques, the Technique of the Loci. “More proper to the speaker is the memory of things; and we can note this by means of some well-arranged masks, in such a way as to be able to grasp […]

Technology to study: why to use it, what to choose

Although I grew up with pen and paper, over the years I have become a technology enthusiast for studying. I began to see its potential when I learned how to use anki to build electronic flashcards, and in more recent times I have also become passionate about multifunctional […]

Study habits: the 7 best (and easiest)

What if your study habits were the real problem? You try new techniques, you look for ninja strategies, you get stuck that you can't memorize or repeat or skimming, you convince yourself that you need complicated and esoteric tools ... But the reality is that the […]

Tomato technique: More Productive with a Simple and Powerful method

La Tomato technique is a productivity and time management method developed in the late 80s by the Italian American Francesco Cirillo. Its name derives from those ticking kitchen timers in the shape of a tomato. Despite its power, the tomato technique has a problem: […]

The Testing Effect: what is Active Recall and what is it for

Il active recall it is one of the pillars of an efficient learning method, and it exploits the principle that long-term memory is stimulated by the very attempt to try to remember. Think for a moment about when you are trying to learn something - you probably […]

The Eisenhower Matrix: Urgent and / or Important?

When it comes to making decisions and setting priorities, few tools are as simple and effective as the Eisenhower matrix. In fact, by combining two unique parameters, urgency and importance, it is able to clearly indicate a strategy for action. Note: The Eisenhower […]

Do you postpone the exams? Maybe it's because you study too much

To take the habit of postponing exams it is one of the most deleterious but also the most common things (after all it is a specific form of procrastination) that happen during the university career. Yet, even though it happens so often and to so many students, […]

Digital Minimalism Changes Your Life

The essential is constantly threatened by the insignificant. (René Char) Before seeing exactly what digital minimalism is, let me tell you a little anecdote. In a recent experiment (Cf. Duke, Ward, Gneezy, Bos, Harvard Business Review), about 800 people were subjected […]

Speed Reading: How It Works and Why It Makes You Study Better

To understand if the browsing works we have to start a few thousand years ago. Hardly anyone knows that all forms of alphabetic writing, at least up to the Middle Ages, had no punctuation and no word separation; that is, they were in the form of the continuous […]

The talent bias and the "I'm not good" excuse

How many of us have followed the Tokyo 2020 Olympics? And how many times, faced with the performances of the best athletes in the world, have we thought “What talent”? Which then is the same thing we think when we see our favorite footballer who unmarks and […]

Deliberate Practice: How to Learn to the Maximum of Your Possibilities

The concept of deliberate practice is by far one of my favorite topics: it marks the difference between doing things "just to do them" and practicing to achieve excellence and craftsmanship in a specific activity. If you have ever studied a language, practiced […]

September: How to Achieve Your Goals

A few days ago I read an article published on the web page of an authoritative health center, which talked about the good intentions that are made during the summer holidays. The article suggested 5 good habits to take in September and to carry on throughout the […]

Evernote for study and productivity.

Evernote is the most famous App dedicated to the organization of time, lists, notes, notes. He talks about it in this article, medical student and GetPersonalGrowth blog consultant for the area study and productivity technologies. Surely you have already […]

University study method: find out the effective one

Hi, and welcome to this mega post talking about university study method. Take at least ten minutes of your time to read it, because the post is epic in length! But it can only be otherwise. Indeed: In college you invest a lot of time, energy and expectations, […]

Quick Read: Why and How It Works [The Ultimate Guide]

La quick reading is every college student's dream. Between doing your first reading of a 700-page book in 2 hours or 2 weeks there is really a huge difference, and quick reading it can save you whole afternoons of study. For this reason, together […]

Problem solving of everyday life: what it is, how it is done

Il problem solving it should be studied in schools. Our existence, in fact, whether one looks at it from the short-term perspective of a day, or from a broader temporal perspective than life itself, it is made up of problems. And I don't mean this in necessarily […]

How to Increase your Productivity: 3 questions and 5 rules

Today I want to talk to you about how to increase yours personal productivity. First, though, let's clarify what I mean by productivity: many think it means doing a lot of things and being perpetually busy, when that's not necessarily the case. In fact, I would […]

Multitasking: If You Know It You Avoid It.

Among the many lies that are read about how to be more productive, one of the hardest to die is the one about multitasking The reason is understandable: during our typical day, we are subject to so many different stimuli that the ability to deal with multiple […]

Difficulty of Concentration: Types, Causes and Remedies

If I had to make a ranking of the problems that make you poor from a physical and mental point of view, the difficulty of concentration it would probably be at the top. In fact, if you are constantly distracted, how can you understand in depth what you do, see, […]

The Feynman Technique: How to Understand Anything

Feynman's technique is a method of analysis that allows you to acquire any new knowledge, no matter how difficult, in a faster, safer and more profound way. Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist from whom it takes its name, was the typical example […]

Neuroplasticity: How We Can Change Our Brains

“We are at the dawn of a revolution, that of neuroplasticità. It is in fact now clear that the brain machine can be constantly reprogrammed and revised in its functions, for the entire course of our lives and under our direct control ”. Michael Merzenich, […]

Learning to Study: 8 Techniques that Work

At school, before anything else, it should be learn to study. And it should be done through a consolidated, efficient, intelligent method. A bit like in sport, where to reach levels of excellence it is not enough to go to the field and practice! Instead, you need […]

Studying with skimming

In this long article I want to talk to you about skimming and how to use it when studying. In fact, many blog readers were amazed at the importance I gave it in this article on the study method, and therefore I thought it was worth explaining why it is so important […]

Want to study: Find it in 3 Steps

I do not want to study is the phrase I hear most often to students, followed by some variations such as: "I don't want to study anymore" (implying that first you had it and then for some reason it disappeared) "I can not study" "I don't feel like studying" And […]

100 things to do when you're bored

A list of things to do when you're bored. Tips for activities you can do both indoors and outdoors, with friends or alone. . 100 things to do when you're bored In this particular period, where restaurants and gyms are closed and you often cannot leave […]

Scamper method: how to activate creative thinking

The SCAMPER method is a simple and effective tool for force our brains to think with creativity. -A moment though! - you may be saying to yourself - Can the words "force" and "creativity" really be in the same sentence? Aren't these two completely antithetical […]

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